VI Siembra-HoLAGrav Young Frontiers Meeting at ICTP-SAIFR

Over the last few years, the Red(e) Siembra-HoLAGrav has hosted an ongoing series of online Young Frontiers Meetings (YFM), targeted specifically to graduate students and early career researchers. The goal is to bring young Latin American students to the forefront of the research in Holography and related topics and also to give opportunities to young postdocs and advanced students to present their results. The YFM initiative has had an important impact, with around 650 registered participants in total over the first 5 events. A complete recording of all the lectures and talks can be found on our YouTube Channel.

This year we are extremely happy to present the first in-person YFM. It will consist of a two-week graduate school for young researchers from our region, hosted and financed by the ICTP-SAIFR. We hope the event will be extremely useful for the students, spark many scientific collaborations among the participants, and help integrate the new members into the LATAM-HEP community. The topics include black hole microstates, de Sitter holography, matrix models, strings and gravity in AdS3, scattering amplitudes for gravitational waves, and the cosmological bootstrap program.

Applicants are invited to submit abstracts for short talks and posters. The event is targeted at Ph.D. students and masters students with a background in General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory.

• Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez (Imperial College London, UK)
• Nicolas Kovensky (IFLP-CONICET, Argentina)
• Alan Rios Fukelman (King’s College London, UK)
• Pedro Jorge Martinez (IFLP-CONICET, Argentina)
• Anayeli Ramirez (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Canada & Brazil)

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: April 19, 2025

Lecturers

• Julio Parra-Martínez (IHES, France)
• Alejandra Castro (Cambridge U., DAMTP, UK)
• Gustavo Joaquín Turiaci (Washington University, USA)
• Guilherme Pimentel (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
• Tarek Anous (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
• Dionysios Anninos (King’s College London, UK)

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: April 19, 2025

TBA

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BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by ICTP-SAIFR, should bring the boarding pass  upon registration. The return boarding pass (PDF, if online check-in, scan or picture, if physical) should be sent to secretary@ictp-saifr.org by e-mail.

COVID-19: Brazilians and foreigners no longer have to present proof of vaccination before entering the country.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA are exempt from tourist visa until April 10, 2025. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A PRINTED BANNER . The banner size should be at most 1 m (width) x 1,5 m (length). We do not accept A4 or A3 paper. Click here to see what a banner looks like: http://designplast.ind.br/produtos/detalhe/impressao-digital/banner/119/9